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Short story, I use to use a 1TB drive and need to upgrade since I have many more files on 3 separate 500GB drives. So I decided to buy a 2TB to replace that drive and put the 1TB in a separate lower power pc just for downloading / seeds. …

I got an ubuntu cd time ago and it said it was a bootable CD so I tried it out. It ended up installing in my machine somehow and I tried to search for my pictures and other files with no result. I took the hard drive out and put …

This may sound like a dumb question but I was wondering if my mouse and keyboard functions (and other built in functions like wireless) will be functional after I upgrade the hard drive without any data transfer from the old hard drive and then installing a new OS. Or would …

hi there, I've looked at other responses but I'm not sure they help me, I'm hoping you can. I have a Seagate desk external hard drive which I store in my safe as it holds all my photos of my kids. I took it out today to put more files …

My cousin wants me to repair her original fat XBox 360. It will play DVDs fine, but when trying to load a game just completely locks up. I've determined that the disk drive is failing, and that it is a Philips Lite-On DG-16D2S. I have an old busted 360 and, …

I've seen many threads on issues with sharing between XP and 7, but this adds the wrinkle of needing to share an external drive as well. The drive is connected to my computer, which can obviously use it just fine, but the XP computers can't even see it's there. Last …

I was using an acer laptop and it had had some fan problems with parts getting stuck in it but everything was working fine. I had droped it a couple of time accidetnly and nothing happened. Then today, I dropped it and everything was working except I heard a ticking …

hi can anyone help i am having problems with a laptop that i was given the laptop was running slow it's a fujitsu siemens amilo pi 1505 on xp pro i tried to backup the previous owners files on to disc but every time i c+p in to cd drive …

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Yesterday my Toshiba laptop crashed, i pulled out the HD and plugged it into my desktop in an attempt to retrieve some data. To make space for the laptop HD I accidently removed the Desktop C: drive HD (mistaking it for another), when I plugged it back in I found …

This may be a PC 101 question, but I'm in the process of adding a second internal hard drive to my new XPS 8300, WIN 7 Pro x-64 pc. I have an external 2 TB HD that I use for backups. I do a lot of digital photography with Photoshop …

Hello, I am new to C++ programming. Till now I have done some toy programs and classroom exercises. I want to develop a Virtual Drive software like PowerISO/Magic ISO. I searched Daniweb but couldn't get a thread where such problem was discussed. So from where should I start to develop …

Hello. I have a FileUpload control in my app, and a user chooses a file that sits on mapped network drives. now i don't want the files to actully download i only want the path to it for a link. my question is how do i get the real path …

I am a Mac 10.6 user. One of my friends suggested me to defrag my drive in order to optimize mac performance. My friend who is at Mac 9.2 suggested me from his own experience. But when I went through Mac support , it says that there is no need …

Hey guys, I have a problem: My USB flash drive is not seen on windows 7 ultimate. i have just reinstalled the windows 7, it still won't fix. Was working about a month ago and it just stopped working 3 days ago. Please help, thanks!

Hi I am new on this web and I bought a Seagate freeAgent go External hard drive I found it helpful so I Purchased another one Now after a few months the Second HD stopped being shown in my computer It was working fine plugged it in my laptop copied …

I got me a new used computer from a neighbor in trade, I formatted and put win xp home on it. After getting all my basic setup done, I went in to bios and set all my security like I always do with any of my CPU's. After doing the …

Straightforward question. If I run Hac-inT0sh on one partion with W7 on another can these partions be separated onto separate hard drives (when I get two hard drives). Any certain programs? Thanks!

Have an old MAXTOR D740X-6L IDE drive. On the drive is jumper information not fully clear to me. An image of the drive information is uploaded to: [B][url]http://cid-63220807a7f4accb.photos.live.com/browse.aspx/MAXTOR[/url][/B] I am familiar with cable select but not the others. Just want to set it for master but hopefully I can learn …

Solid State Disks are ideally suited to laptop use, being small and thin but rugged as well. The lack of moving parts is pretty much a win-win for mobile usage, making these units much less prone to the knocks and drops of daily life than your average mechanical hard drive. …

Hi My dell inspiron laptop has gone loopy,keeps restarting and no access to safe mode(f8) I wanted to test the hard drive of the dell laptop using an old tecra 8100 wont recongnise hard drive from dell laptop but does recongnise old wd external hard disk. The hard drive is …

I'm currently running on a Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 1 and my CD-Drive doesn't seem to close itself. It will open on it's own, most of the time, but when it does do that it won't close itself. But that's not my main concern. My …

I've started a [URL="http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20110127025920867&board_id=1&model=P5N7A-VM&page=1&SLanguage=en-us"]thread[/URL] on the Asus forums, but thought that maybe this community could be helpful as well. First, my machine: ------------------ [INDENT][B]Motherboard:[/B] Asus P5N7A-VM [B]BIOS version:[/B] 0519 4/29/2010 [B]CPU:[/B] Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz LGA 775 95W [B]Memory installed:[/B] 4096 MB [B]Memory type:[/B] OCZ ReaperX HPC 4GB (2 …

Hi I am writing this for my little sister who needs a bit of help with her external hard drive. The other day she took out dad's external disk from her old computer and put in her own external to copy over some images, but on her external she could …

I'm sure threads don't have to be all about problems so, I was wondering when I delete my files, where does it go? How does the hard drive regain its space? I read somewhere that the OS just ignores it but I wanted to make sure and if we used …

This isn't the first time I've had this problem and the last time I had it, I didn't note down how I fixed it. I just spent the last hour or so looking for solutions to this online and to my surprise, nowhere actually has an answer. My external hard …

Hey guys, I am having some issues with my PC. My main drive with my OS is SATA, as well as my DVD-RW. As of this morning, I received a "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" message when trying to turn on my computer. I checked my …

I have two computer with xp and one with vista. I want to connect all the drives together. I made the workgroup and it's all the same on all three computers, they're all connected. I can remote desktop each of them on each of them. On one XP I can …

Hi, I have been advised by an HP chat technician that My laptop (Vista, 32 bit, < 1year old) a. will not access more than 320Gb via USB b. will not accommodate more than 320Gb internally Both he attributes to mother board limitations. Now (b) I'm willing to accept, althought …

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop running Vista SP1. A month or more ago it stopped being able to read any USB flash drives. They all work in my other laptops, but in this one machine the autoplay dialog box has stopped popping up, and when I click the drive …